All GPs articles – Page 70
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HSJ KnowledgeHow doctor-patient phone calls can cut unnecessary emergency care attendances
When GPs phone back patients who want to book an appointment, many often accept they do not need to visit the surgery or to go to A&E after all. Harry Longman explains the benefits this level of doctor access offers.
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NewsBMA to survey members on pensions deal
Around 130,000 doctors and medical students are to be surveyed about the government’s final offer on pensions, raising the prospect of their first industrial action ballot for over 30 years.
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NewsGive doctors stronger assisted dying powers, report says
Doctors could be given powers allowing them to help terminally ill patients to die, a report said today.
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NewsClinical commissioning behind schedule and risking 'suspended animation'
Clinical commissioning is behind schedule in many areas with the transfer of staff from primary care trusts stalled and just over a year remaining before the NHS’s structural overhaul is supposed to be complete.
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HSJ Local
Two Croydon GP groups merge
STRUCTURE: The two emerging clinical commissioning groups under Croydon PCT have decided to merge.
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NewsField's Future Forum report to call for GPs to move into 'bigger organisations'
NHS Future Forum chair Steve Field has called for GPs to work in “federations or in bigger organisations”, and to focus on integration of services, ahead of the publication of the review group’s advice to the government.
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NewsWales' top doctor announces retirement
Wales’ top doctor Tony Jewell said he will step down as Wales’ chief medical officer (CMO) next summer after six years in the post.
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HSJ Local
Surrey has 10 emerging CCGs
STRUCTURE: There are currently 10 clinical commissioning groups emerging in Surrey, according to primary are trust documents.
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HSJ Local
Leicester City boosts Health Check funding
FINANCE: Extra funding is being made available in Leicester over the next two years to increase the number of patients being offered a free Health Check at GP practices across the city.
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HSJ Local
Six Cornwall CCGs merge to become two - including one of the largest in England
STRUCTURE: Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT GPs are now proposing two clinical commissioning groups, down from an initial six practice based commissioning groups.
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HSJ Local
'Race split' Milton Keynes CCGs agree to merge
STRUCTURE: Two emerging clinical commissioning groups in Milton Keynes - one of which was dominated by doctors with an Asian background - have agreed to merge.
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NewsFirst funds announced for GP Extraction Service
The NHS Information Centre has announced it will receive around £40m of funding to enable clinical data to be extracted from GP practices.
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HSJ Local
Bradford and Airedale reports three emerging CCGs
STRUCTURE: There are three emerging clinical commissioning groups for GPs in Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT, following discussions over the past year.
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HSJ Local
Three Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale emerging CCGs become one
STRUCTURE: Three GP groups within Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT have merged to form a single CCG, NHS Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale CCG.
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HSJ Local
Five GP groups become one CCG in East Lancs
STRUCTURE: Five GP commissioning groups within NHS East Lancashire Teaching PCT have merged to become one emerging clinical commissioning group.
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NewsCivil service unions hold up pensions 'progress'
The government will today outline progress made on the public sector pensions dispute, which remains unresolved despite lengthy talks.
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NewsExclusive: Commissioning board will have GP deputy medical director
A GP will be appointed as the deputy medical director of the NHS Commissioning Board, its medical director Sir Bruce Keogh has said.
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HSJ Local
Two Bolton emerging CCGs become one
STRUCTURE: All GP practices in Bolton are now part of a single emerging clinical commissioning group, Bolton Health Consortium.
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NewsNHS managers asked to resign - Labour
Senior NHS figures have been sent letters asking for their resignation as part of the move towards controversial health reforms, Labour has revealed.
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NewsGMC to provide assisted suicide guidance
The General Medical Council is to issue guidance on how to deal with complaints against doctors who may have assisted in suicides.